Andrea Young
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Known forvan der Waals heterostructures
AwardsNew Horizons in Physics Prize
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Thesis Quantum transport in graphene heterostructures
Doctoral advisorPhilip Kim
Websiteafylab.com

Andrea F. Young is an American experimental physicist and assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2018, he was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for his work on van der Waals heterostructures and quantum Hall phases.[1]

Education and career

Young received his bachelor's degree in 2006 and his doctoral degree in 2012 from Columbia University, where he studied the properties of graphene.[2] From 2011 to 2014, he was a Pappalardo Fellow in experimental condensed matter physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] Following his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, he was a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[2] Young joined the faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2015.

Awards and honors

In 2016, Young was awarded the William McMillan Prize from the University of Illinois Department of Physics[4] and the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.[5] He was additionally a recipient of an AFOSR Young Investigator grant (2016)[6] Young was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017.[7] He received the 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Laureates: Andrea Young". Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  2. ^ a b Yu, Christine (2018). "Prizewinner Andrea Young '06 is Expanding Physics' Horizons". Columbia College Today. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. ^ "MIT Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Lists of Current, Incoming and Former Fellows". MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. ^ "McMillan Award". Illinois Physics. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. ^ Estrada A, Cohen J (23 October 2016). "UCSB Physicist Andrea Young Receives 2016 Packard Fellowship". Noozhawk. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. ^ Fernandez, Sonia (20 March 2016). "Sensing Potential". The UCSB Current. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  7. ^ Fernandez, Sonia (22 February 2017). "New Research Horizons". The UCSB Current. Retrieved 2020-06-17.


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